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THE TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS
March, April, 2008, Newsletter
Deadline approaching to get special hotel rate
for TIL's April 18-19 meeting in Dallas
To get the special TIL rate for rooms at the Park Cities Hilton Hotel reservations must be made
by March 28. Members should request the Texas Institute of Letters rate-$129 per night for a standard
king or double queen guestroom based on single or double occupancy. A limited number of rooms are
available on the Executive Club Floor at the rate of $159 per night.
Reservations may be made 24 hours a day by calling 1-800-HILTONS.
This year's meeting will begin, as usual, with a Friday night reception. The site for this year's
reception, the private library at the Harlan Crow home, is truly outstanding. It is open only on special
occasions, and this likely will be the only chance for many members to view it.
The library is in a two-story addition to the Crow home on Preston Road in Highland Park. At
one time the house was owned and resided in by Electra Waggoner (eccentric daughter of famed
cattleman W.T. Waggoner; the Buick Electra and the town of Electra were named for her). The library
contains priceless artifacts: Eisenhower's five-star helmet, Lincoln's desk, a silver tankard created by
Paul Revere, and many others), historic documents (the deed to George Washington's Mt. Vernon estate
and correspondence from all U.S. presidents), 3,500 manuscripts, 8,000 rare books, and paintings by
America's greatest masters such as Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley, Rembrandt Peale, Benjamin
West, and Thomas Sully.
Be sure to indicate your attendance for the reception on your registration form reprinted in this
newsletter. Plans are to have a bus take members from the Park Cities Hilton, where we'll be staying, to
the Crow mansion and library just down Preston Road.
At the hotel on Saturday afternoon new member readings will be held, followed by a cocktail
hour and the awards banquet.
Here are the finalists for TIL's 2007 awards
Fran Vick has announced finalists for TIL's 2007 literary awards.
Prizes totaling $21,700 will be awarded at the evening banquet on April 19 at the Park Cities
Hilton.
Last year's top TIL fiction and non-fiction winners, Cormac McCarthy and Lawrence Wright,
went on to win Pulitzer Prizes-McCarthy for The Road and Wright for The Looming Tower.
Several individuals in this year's competition are finalists in more than one category. Julie
Savasky was a co-designer for all three of the finalists for the Fred Whitehead competition for best design
of a book. Her partner in two of the projects was DJ Stout, and William Wittliff was her co-designer for
the third.
Two other multiple nominees are John J. McLaughlin, whose novel, Run in the Fam'ly, is a
finalist in both the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction and the Steven Turner Award for Best
Work of First Fiction, and Rick Bass, a finalist for separate entries in the O. Henry Award for Best Work
of Magazine Journalism and the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story.
The Lon Tinkle Award for excellence sustained throughout a career will be given to
Southern Methodist University historian David Weber, prize-winning author of works about the
American Southwest and Mexico. A cash prize of $1,500 accompanies this award.
Finalists in all categories are as follows:
Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction ($6,000): Gerald Duff, Fire Ants (New South
Books); Russell Hardin, Dmitir Esterhaats (Wings Press); and John J. McLaughlin, Run in the Fam'ly
(University of Tennessee Press).Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-fiction ($5,000): Paul F. Boller, Presidential
Diversions: Presidents at Play from George Washington to George W. Bush (Harcourt); William Roger
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